Mike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East
Mike Kane has been an MP since 2014. Currently: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee; Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (Department for Transport) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Transport) (Department for Transport) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Education) (Schools) (Department for Education) | 2016 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Minister (International Development) (Department for International Development) | 2015 to 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland Affairs Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill | 2025 | |
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill | 2024 | |
| Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] | 2023 | |
| Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords] | 2021 | |
| Treasury Committee | 2014 to 2015 | |
| Environmental Audit Committee | 2014 to 2015 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Mike Kane has 2 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid paid trustee and Chair of Initiatives of Change | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | A non-Executive Director of The Oxford Group, whose programmes include initiatives to develop sustainable communities; making films about conflict resolution; working to bring trust and integrity into the business and financial sectors; helping young people to find a sense of vocation. This is an unpaid role. | 13 Sep 2022 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Mike Kane asked 2 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
49 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Mike Kane represents Wythenshawe and Sale East. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Mike Kane won with 53% of the votes, and Julie Fousert (Reform UK) came second with 15%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Kane | Labour | 20,596 | 52.6% |
| Julie Fousert | Reform UK | 5,986 | 15.3% |
| Sarah Beament | Conservative | 5,392 | 13.8% |
| Melanie Earp | Green Party | 4,133 | 10.6% |
| Simon Lepori | Liberal Democrat | 1,985 | 5.1% |
| John Barstow | Workers Party of Britain | 714 | 1.8% |
| Hilary Salt | Social Democratic Party | 326 | 0.8% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Mike Kane took part in 234 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Mike Kane voted the same way as their party in 232 of the 232 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this